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From: swfc@ulysses.att.com (Shu-Wie F Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Recursion without -R
Keywords: recursion
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Date: 14 Aug 90 20:31:40 GMT
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In article <494@llnl.LLNL.GOV>, rjshaw@ramius.ocf.llnl.gov (Robert Shaw)
writes:
|>Hi. 
|>
|>What are some quick tricks for getting programs like chmod and chown to
|>descend into all subdirectories? Programs without a -R option, that is.
|>

find . -print | xargs chown foo

Of course, this only works if you have xargs, which is from System V and
is also available on SunOS in their System V software installation option.

*swfc